CVE-2014-1737
Severity
7.2HIGH
EPSS
0.0%
top 86.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 11
Latest updateMay 13
Description
The raw_cmd_copyin function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly handle error conditions during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to trigger kfree operations and gain privileges by leveraging write access to a /dev/fd device.
CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 10.0
Affected Packages8 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 6.0, 7.0, Enterprise Linux 5.6, 6.3